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Please confine your use of the phone to business calls. By closing the infected farms we're hoping to confine the disease to the north of the region (= stop it from spreading to other areas). C2 [ T usually passive ] to keep someone closed in a place, often by force:
By closing the infected farms we're hoping to confine the disease to the north of the region (= stop it from spreading to other areas). C2 [ T usually passive ] to keep someone closed in a place, often by force: The hostages had been confined for so long that they couldn't cope with the outside world.
The meaning of CONFINED is kept within confines. How to use confined in a sentence.
Confined definition: limited or restricted.. See examples of CONFINED used in a sentence.
A confined space or area is small and enclosed by walls. His long legs bent up in the confined space. Synonyms: restricted, small, limited, narrow More Synonyms of confined. 3. adjective. If someone is confined to a wheelchair, bed, or house, they have to stay there, because they have a disability or are ill.
restrict. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Choose the Right Synonym for confine. limit, restrict, circumscribe, confine mean to set bounds for. limit implies setting a point or line (as in time, space, speed, or degree) beyond which something cannot or is not permitted to go. visits are limited to 30 minutes.
The adjective confined describes a space that is cramped or small and constricted. You probably don't see any claustrophobic vampires because if they were claustrophobic, they'd have a fear of confined spaces — like their coffins.
